Zach Four Pillar Freedom Quotes

“A mindset shift that made selling products and services easier for me:

If I genuinely believe the product or service I'm selling offers a massive return for someone, I'd be doing a disservice to people by not promoting it.”

“Advice to my younger self: having freedom over your time will make you happier than any material possession.”

“An open office space is horrible for productivity, but great for camaraderie.”

“An SEO-optimized article a day keeps the 9-5 away.”

“Be impatient in the short-term and patient in the long-term.

Most people get this backwards. They're too slow to take action in the short-term, yet they expect results right away.

You should take action consistently each day, but don't expect results for months or years.”

“Become financially independent not to avoid work, but to have the means to work on whatever you want for as many hours as you want each day.”

“Being an entrepreneur means there is no benefit to appearing busy. There's no boss to impress. You are the boss.”

“Corporate culture can turn interesting work into a nightmare.”

“Enjoyable Active Income: income resulting from active work that an individual finds enjoyable.”

“Having the freedom to sit in a field and read a book on a Tuesday at noon feels better than any fancy job title ever did.”

“How to print money with SEO:

1. Find low-difficulty keywords.
2. Write articles targeting those keywords.
3. Place ads on site.

Repeat over and over and over.”

“I can’t imagine enjoying any corporate job. No matter how much I like the work itself, the environment and daily schedule is just too awful.”

“I have a massive Excel spreadsheet with 3,000+ low difficulty keywords I plan on writing about in the coming months and years.

The amount of keywords out there on the internet that you can rank for with even a low authority site is mind-boggling.”

“I love being a solopreneur.

No boss telling me what to do.
No co-workers to align schedules with.
Nobody to manage.
Zero time spent in meetings and responding to emails.
Just pure productivity.”

“I've reached a point financially where no annual salary could ever draw me back to Corporate America.”

“If I ever write a book on wealth accumulation, it will start with the following sentence:

The number one reason to become wealthy is to own your time.”

“If it doesn’t pay you over and over again, don’t work on it.”

“If you can gain autonomy, you give yourself far more freedom to pursue competence and relatedness.”

“If you have knowledge in a subject that most people are intimidated by, you can use that knowledge to earn some serious income.”

“In many fields, it's easy to replicate the 'day in the life' routine of someone in the top 1% of the field.

The hard part is replicating it for years.”

“It's hard to overstate how much joy I've gained from removing a daily commute and team meetings from my work life.”

“Learning SEO is easy.
What's hard is:

(1) Consistently producing well-written articles.
(2) Being patient enough to wait for results.

Every single person I know who has had success with SEO has been excellent at (1) and (2).”

“Learning SEO is not hard.

What's hard is writing articles consistently for long enough that you give SEO a chance to kick in and work its magic.

Most people lack consistency.”

“Many people I know in real life think it's impossible to earn $10k/ month.

Many people I know online know that $10k/month is just the tip of the iceberg.

Surround yourself with an internet tribe where huge $$$ income is normal.”

“Most people are capable of building a website that could change their entire financial life in ~2 years but 99% will quit after 2-3 months.”

“Most self-help books can be boiled down to:

Be impatient with action, but patient with results.”

“My daily work schedule hasn't changed in 3 years.

Literally all I do is sit and write SEO-optimized articles for 4 hours each morning.

This has taken me from $0 MRR to $5k to $10k to $20k and beyond.

Repetition. Repetition. Repetition.”

“My financial objectives (in order):

1. Make a ton of money.
2. Provide for my family.
3. Help extended family and friends.
4. Give back to community.”

“One year of working for yourself can make you unemployable.”

“Prioritize health, wealth, and family. Everything else is noise.”

“Read all the books, listen to all the podcasts, follow all the right accounts, take all the courses.

None of it matters if you don't take action.”

“SEO Tip of the day: Deleting poor-performing posts that are > 1 year old and have no backlinks is an easy way to boost the overall SEO quality of your site.”

“Sitting at my desk each morning for 4 hours and writing SEO-optimized articles bought my financial independence.

You only need to do one thing really well to make crazy $$$ on the internet.”

“The best way to attract money into your life is to create value for a specific audience. The more value you provide and the larger the audience you provide it for, the higher your income.”

“The best way to attract money is to create value for a specific group of people.”

“The concept of “work” doesn’t scare me. I can easily sit in a coffee shop for five hours on a Saturday morning and work on something I find interesting. I enjoy the grind, just not in a corporate environment.”

“The desire for passive income is abundant. The willingness to do the active work that leads to passive income is scarce.”

“The first $1k MRR is the hardest.”

“The harder a skill is to learn, the more you can earn because the economy rewards the rare.”

“The longer you wait to take action, the more likely you won’t.”

“The number one reason to become wealthy is to own your time.”

“There is a reason that cashiers earn minimum wage: most people can learn how to operate a cash register in under 30 minutes with no prior training.”

“Things that bring me a ridiculous amount of joy:

- living within 30 minutes of all the people I love
- having no daily commute
- having no boss
- having something to work towards”

“Two things that are hard to wrap your head around with regards to SEO:

(1) It will likely take longer than you think to start getting traffic to your site.

(2) Once you get the ball rolling, the amount of traffic you can get is likely much more than you could imagine.”

“Use money to buy peace of mind.”

“When I was in Corp. America, I tried to increase my income by 10-15% each year.

Now that I work for myself I try to triple my income each year.

Earning income on the internet lets you play a completely different financial game.”

“When you have to build something, your learning is both (1) need-based and (2) outcome-oriented.

(1) need-based: you only learn skills that you will need to build that thing you’re working on.

(2) outcome-oriented: that thing you’re building is tangible. It will be seen by you and possibly others.”

“Whenever you trade time for money, there is an inherent upper limit on how much you can earn.”

“Writing one SEO-optimized article per day on a website that you own can change your entire financial life.”

“You can't compete with someone who enjoys the process.”

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Simply having a goal to become wealthy does not work. You need a system in place that makes wealth creation inevitable.”

“You don’t need to take a course or read a textbook to pick up a new skill. Instead, try to build something with that skill that you find interesting.”

“You're rich if no additional amount of money would change your daily routine.”

“You're rich if no additional amount of money would change your daily routine.”

“Your daily habits literally dictate where you'll be in 3-5 years.

You don't have to do anything extraordinary on a daily basis, you just have to do a couple things right day in and day out consistently.”

“Your passion isn’t just hiding out there somewhere waiting to be discovered by you. You have to pursue work you find interesting, experiment with many different types of work, and ultimately cultivate a passion from the ground up.”